Gnewt

Gnewt's Arc
Chapter 2 of 14

Gnewt's dream is coming to Strykers' aid and proving to the village she's the good and the elders are bad guys.

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Chapter 2

Gnewt's eyes locked on the bamboo jail. The crowd still murmured about Croaker's evidence, but their voices had become background noise. She had failed to stop the judgment. Now she needed proof that would undo it. The elders wanted Stryker silent, and they had done this before. A voice came from the reinforced wooden cell beside Stryker's. The structure's iron bands gleamed through rotted boards, water pooling beneath where the prisoner sat. "They buried my maps," the voice said. A lizard pressed against the bars, scales dulled by days without sun. "Locked me up when I asked about the bones at Snake Lagoon. Said I was spreading fear." Gnewt slid closer, her tongue tasting truth in the air. The prisoner pushed a folded paper through a gap in the wood. "Found this in my grandfather's chest before they took me. Names of six others who disappeared after asking questions." Gnewt's pouch opened. She took the paper, her mind already moving three steps ahead. The elders had left evidence. Now she had it. But the elder who had pronounced judgment stood and moved toward her, his footsteps heavy on the wet ground. Gnewt slipped the diary under her scales and moved parallel to the cells, keeping the bamboo between them. She needed to reach Stryker with this proof before the elders separated them for good. The elder called out, ordering the guards to clear the area. Gnewt pressed against the back of Stryker's cell and pushed the diary through the narrow gap between stalks. Stryker's fingers closed around it immediately. Their eyes met through the bamboo. Stryker opened the diary to the first page and read the list of names. Her expression didn't change, but her grip tightened on the leather binding. She knew what it meant. The village would too, once Gnewt found the right witness to hear it.

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